Publications

Products of IAP programmes, projects and activities are collated here. In addition are publications from the IAP regional networks, as well as those issuing from projects that have received financial support from IAP.

Links to publications from member academies and other relevant organizations on topics that are central to IAP and its mission are included under Resources.

A new report by EASAC confirms that negative emission technologies (NETs) offer only “limited realistic potential” to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and not at the scale envisaged in some climate scenarios.

This report, the proceedings of a workshop “Assessing the security implications of genome editing technology” is published by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). IAP is the global network of more than 130 national academies of science, medicine and engineering, together with four ...

The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, or “Agenda 2030”, is a blueprint for the future well-being of the planet. Its targets are aspirational, but the stakes are high, as our planet faces unprecedented economic, social and environmental ...

This publication reviews the activities of IANAS' Science Education Programme over the past decade, considering both the successes and failures, with the view of learning from collective experiences to improve all aspects of future inquiry-based science education (IBSE) as well as the STEM ...

Women are under-represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields globally, but the situation is worse in Africa. In response to this, the Inter-Academy Partnership for Research (IAP-R) partnered with NASAC to publish a book profiling African women scientists. This ...

NASAC - The Network of African Science Academies, has released Volume 4 Issue 1 of its electronic bulletin, the Science Networker. This regular publication gives an insight into NASAC’s and its member academies’ recent work with an outlook of what is planned in the near future.

This report by the Academy of Medical Sciences and IAP for Health identifies a number of key gaps and barriers in clinical research capacity across the different regions of the world and potential opportunities to further strengthen clinical research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ...

A new report by the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC) on multi- functionality and sustainability in the EU's forests gives advice to European policy-makers on recent scientific knowledge, its relevance to policy and presents concise evidence and conclusions towards important ...

The Accademia Medica di Roma has published a third report on a project assessing the feasibility for a Health Science Education Programme in compulsory primary schools. The project has been partly co-sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy) and has received funds from IAP and IAP for ...

IAP for Health and the Academy of Medical Sciences UK have published a report on rapid diagnostic tests which summarises the conclusions of an international meeting held in London on 21 November 2016, to discuss the growth of this technology and how rapid diagnostic tests could be accelerated to ...

This publication addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the ...

An EASAC working group on genome editing recommends that regulators should focus on specific applications of these new techniques rather than attempting to regulate genome editing itself as a new technology.

NASAC - The Network of African Science Academies, has released Volume 3 Issue 2 (December 2016) of its electronic bulletin, the Science Networker. This regular publication gives an insight into NASAC’s and its member academies’ recent work with an outlook of what is planned in the near future.

The Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the French Academy of Medicine held a workshop on Human Genome Editing held in Paris on 28 April 2016 supported by funding of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). The report of this event has now been ...

Produced by the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences through a project funded by IAP and in collaboration with the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, this booklet provides guidelines on inquiry-based science education (IBSE) for teachers and parents. It also introduces a series of 'hands-on' ...

This regional study explored working conditions and obstacles faced by scientists and scholars across all disciplines early in their careers in the context of four countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.